Snip&Sketch Alternatives for Linux

Snip&Sketch is not available for Linux but there are a few alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Flameshot, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Snip&Sketch and four of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Snip&Sketch are Spectacle, SunnyCapturer and GNOME Screenshot.

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  1. Flameshot icon
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    Flameshot is a free, open-source screenshot tool that is cross-platform compatible, offering customization, editing features, CLI scripting, and direct Imgur uploads for seamless sharing. It provides an intuitive user experience through features like area selection, annotations, and saving options.

    85 Flameshot alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Snapcraft
     
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    Flameshot vs Snip&Sketch Comments
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    Has more features than Snip & Sketch like lines, arrows, text, blur, plain or full rectangles/circles and even has a tray icon. The filename pattern is also customisable.

    • Flameshot is Free and Open SourceSnip&Sketch is Free and Proprietary
    • Flameshot is Lightweight, Customizable and Privacy focusedSnip&Sketch is not according to our users
  2. Spectacle icon
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    Spectacle is a simple application for capturing desktop screenshots. It can capture images of the entire desktop, a single monitor, the currently active window, the window currently under the mouse, or a rectangular region of the screen.

    205 Spectacle alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    • Snapcraft
     
  3. SunnyCapturer is a simple and beautiful cross-platform screenshot software that supports OCR for extracting text from images, image translation, custom stickers, and pinning images to the screen. Supports Windows, MacOS, Linux operating systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. GNOME Screenshot is a utility used in the GNOME desktop environment for taking screenshots. It was part of the GNOME Utilities (gnome-utils) package, but was split into its own package for the 3.3.1 version in 2011.

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    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • GNOME
     
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